A South Auckland school teacher was beaten unconscious by a student as he checked corridors during a rainy June lunchtime.

Secondary Schools Association president Patrick Walsh said the attack was an example of the "disturbing trend" of increasing verbal and physical assaults on teachers by students.

Mr Walsh said the rising number of attacks was indicative of the breakdown of values in society and the influences of dysfunctional families and violent video games.

NZ Christian Network National Director Glyn Carpenter says there are a complicated set of factors in all violence cases. He says it is easy to connect lack of respect and violence with disadvantage, family breakdown and social pressures. But society is failing to acknowledge also the growing lack of faith, diminishing status of marriage, and the important role of the Church community.

"These words are missing in current public debate," he says, "and desperately need to be restored."

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